Ah I see. I knew you were making a joke. I just thought the joke was regarding the earlier conversation and you had missed that it was indeed implemented in this way (to be fair many people on here don’t read every comment).
But your joke was based upon the findings of this thread and added to it. I missed that.
Guess I really should learn European.
Country of origin and namesake: 
Most native speakers: 
Biggest country with English as official language: 
Pretty sure it’s considered to be a dialect of English. Wikipedia and ChatGPT also state this.
I think it’s weird that England is considered to be a country since it’s included in the UK which is also considered to be a country.
I would use the UK flag for English as that is the nation-state where that language comes from.
Right but why does that matter? Should we give a participation medal to these countries?
are you talking about me :3
It’s a tricky problem to represent languages in a clearly accessible way to a multi-lingual audience. Flags are a common method, but do have issues as others have noted already.
An alternative would be to use ISO language codes
Would people find these easier to understand?
I don’t think so. My idea would be: If you want to symbolize German as a language use the German flag, if you want to symbolize Spanish as language show the Spanish flag, etc.
That sounds like quite a fun observation 
New Zealand is small, so it’s easy to run into well-known people, but it’s also possible this could just be a display or listing glitch.
You might want to double-check the source to confirm whether those people are actually there.
Still, meeting someone like that in person would be a great surprise!
I suppose there’s the forum which any user with an account on the main site can use to comment about or bring up issues. Comments/hearts, general agreement on what should be done does tend to get things done, but some things not as quickly as others it’s true.
There’s also the GitHub issues page for the repo, and that has the ability to upvote proposals also. It requires an account, but I suppose trello probably does too?
I imagine if they wanted they could use the new news page to ask to vote on a feature with the emoji reacts 
Play Go at online-go.com! | OGS Or just a poll on the forum, but it would need a list of requests gathered together anyway.
Maybe it could be something to do in future, have a list of popular requests that might be viable but would need priority.
Yeah I agree it can be a hassle to get things up and running. That said I think with small things, GitHub can allow direct edits in the browser. Like in the case of these flags for the resources page, or the function that chooses a ‘language’ given a country, it might only be used on about two pages - an about page for the team and the resources page.
So it might be viable as a quick edit without having to build the repo properly.
It would certainly be simpler.
And British English is also a dialect of English, if you want to get technical, because the linguistic definition of a dialect is just a way a group of speakers speak
If on the other hand we go with the more colloquial meaning of language that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy, then US English or American or however you wish to call it is a language, in a sense
All that said, I think it would communicate information better to just pick a flag and stick with it, with the GB flag, the US flag, and both the GB and US flags with a / separating them being the 3 conventions I encounter most often online. Any of the 3 would communicate the relevant information well in this context, I think
Never heard someone define the word language like that ever. Do you have any source or reference for this?
This is exactly my opinion too. In the end it doesn’t matter that much which of these three a website owner decides to choose but choosing one would be more intuitive than switching the symbol around on a per user basis.
As a European I usually prefer the UK flag BUT that being said it seems that OGS is actually using the American Dialect of English, e.g. “Color” instead of “Colour”. So it might make sense to utilize the Dialect icon.
And if you want to symbolize English as a language show the English flag “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s” flag.
“Europe” is not far behind.
Yeah, it just doesn’t make much sense to display language with flags.
Also, OGS has flags for places in profiles as well. That’s even more confusing, and it also gets political very fast when you use flags - because which ones will you allow and include and which ones not?
(Btw, I suggested we should get rid of flags a few years ago. 
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It’s not a perfect system. But perfect is the enemy of good as people say. Duolingo is the world’s most popular language learning platform and they are doing it too: Duolingo
I don’t think we would be even talking about this had they not done this:
if (
language === "english" &&
["ca", "gb", "au", "nz", "pk", "ng", "ph", "za", "sg", "ie", "us"].indexOf(user_country) >=
0
) {
This is incorrect. English is not an official language in NZ. If a document demands using an official language in NZ its either Maori or sign language.
Now you are confusing me. Maori and sign languageare both spoken / signed by less than 5% of the population (Census 2003). I would think it’s impractical to have them the only offical languages.
Wikipedia seems to disagree:
New Zealand has three official languages: English (de facto), Māori and New Zealand Sign Language.
Note the (de facto). You should look into that.
